Thread: SPLC Lies Get Salon Magazine and Mike Madden In Hot Water

SPLC Lies Get Salon Magazine and Mike Madden In Hot Water

January 14, 2009
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A liberally biased reporter for Salon.com, Mike Madden, attempted to run to the aid of the Martha Coakley's campaign yesterday after Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) endorsed and contributed to the Scott Brown for U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts.

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is a national organization with over 30,000 supporters that endorses hundreds of federal candidates each election cycle. The group's mission is to represent the wishes of the 80% of Americans, found in multiple scientific and certified polls, who favor immigration enforcement instead of amnesty. ALIPAC makes overt, repeated, and documented efforts to be inclusive of Americans of all races, political parties, denominations, and walks of life. ALIPAC's President, William Gheen, has a background in civil rights campaigns from the 1990s. The group is also supported by many LEGAL immigrants.

"We do all we can to represent the 80% found in those pro-enforcement readings in the polls," said Gheen. "We know that the majority of blacks and Hispanics, as well as the majority of Democrats, favor enforcement over Amnesty. Our goal is to unify so we face constant false attacks on our organization's character from unscrupulous writers like Mike Madden of Salon.com"

Mike Madden of Salon.com made a major mistake by launching a hit piece against ALIPAC after receiving ALIPAC's press release about the endorsement of the Scott Brown campaign.

Madden accessed propaganda distributed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has become widely discredited in the last few years for distributing false information that has embarrassed many members of the media who quoted them.

"We hope that the national embarrassment Mr. Madden and Salon.com will now endure for printing false and derogatory attacks in an attempt to affect the outcome of an election will be a lesson to others," said Gheen. "Print media is not supposed to attempt to write political smears to influence elections, and when they use false information like this, everyone suffers."

Mike Madden even attempted to contact the Scott Brown campaign to ask for responses to his promotion of false and derogatory information.

Here are our corrections that will be circulated nationally today.

SPLC / Mike Madden / Salon.com False claim #1

"Scott Brown's ugly friends.... GOP candidate for Senate draws some support from the far right...a couple of unsavory right-wing groups are coming to Republican candidate Scott Brown's aid -- underscoring just how conservative the GOP nominee...really is."

The use of the word "ugly" is overtly biased, childish, and highly unprofessional. This is a campaign for U.S. Senate, not a playground fight. If Mr. Madden and his editors are not up to the level of professionalism expected, they should stay away from the elections all together. It is not a far-right position to support secure borders and immigration enforcement while opposing Amnesty. Many Americans who consider themselves Democrats and liberals support ALIPAC's stances.

SPLC / Mike Madden / Salon.com False claim #2

"The endorsement may not be entirely welcome news; the Southern Poverty Law Center points out that some of ALIPAC's funding comes from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which the SPLC has branded a hate group."

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is not and has not ever been funded by FAIR (Federation For American Immigration Reform). The SPLC claim that ALIPAC receives funding from FAIR is blatantly false.

Furthermore, ALIPAC does not recognize the SPLC claim that FAIR is a "hate group" as a legitimate claim. We have witnessed that FAIR is a multi-racial, non-violent, pro-immigration enforcement group that works with lawmakers and the media. The SPLC has developed a reputation for attacking multi-ethnic civic-oriented organizations that simply oppose illegal immigration.

In closing, ALIPAC is not "ugly", "unsavory", nor "right wing". Opposing illegal immigration and Amnesty for illegals is not "ugly", "unsavory", or "right wing". ALIPAC receives no funding from FAIR and FAIR is not a hate group.

Mike Madden, Salon.com, and The Southern Poverty Law Center are printing and circulating false and derogatory propaganda and in doing so are hurting their own credibility.

First rule of journalism: What, Where, Who, Why and How.

ALIPAC claims that Madden is in hot water. Okay, but to claim this as fact without any proof, makes this a sensational fluff piece, much like what Madden did.

What proof is there that Mike Madden is in hot water?

Where, other than a press release from ALIPAC, is said proof that Madden is in hot water?

Who, other than ALIPAC, said Madden is in hot water?

I can see why ALIPAC would like to claim that Madden is in hot water. Who else backs up this claim?

How do you go about proving Madden is in hot water? Have there been sanctions against him? Has his employer requested he retract his own false claims?

I think Madden is an a$$ for the libelous article, but I also think that ALIPAC can't make false claims either. It's all about misdirection on the pro-illegal side, ALIPAC maybe shouldn't play the same game.

are you going to link the article in question to this press release?

All this tells me is that Scott Brown is closing in for the kill and their getting desperate. SPLC and NCLR?!? now there's some non-bias creditable sourses

Originally Posted by Reciprocity

All this tells me is that Scott Brown is closing in for the kill and their getting desperate. SPLC and NCLR?!? now there's some non-bias creditable sourses

ROFL my thoughts exactly

added to the homepage and going out to the nation now.

If some of you could bombard Salon.com with copies of this for any place you can find to post it there or email it in to their staff and editors.

Let em have it!

http://www.alipac.us/article4840.html

Here's the article and link:


War Room
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 16:49 EST
Scott Brown's ugly friends
In Massachusetts, the GOP candidate for Senate draws some support from the far right
By Mike Madden

WASHINGTON -- As the Massachusetts Senate special election wraps up, a couple of unsavory right-wing groups are coming to Republican candidate Scott Brown's aid -- underscoring just how conservative the GOP nominee who's suddenly causing Bay State Democrats to panic really is.

Brown was endorsed Wednesday by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, one of the most aggressive organizations against illegal immigration in the country (the group runs a Web page where it encourages people to "report illegal immigrants, employers that hire illegal labor, and smugglers"). Officials say ALIPAC is backing Brown "due to his campaign's focus on the issue of the illegal immigration." The endorsement may not be entirely welcome news; the Southern Poverty Law Center points out that some of ALIPAC's funding comes from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which the SPLC has branded a hate group.

Another group on the SPLC's list, MassResistance, is also urging its ideological allies to vote for Brown. A blatantly anti-gay organization, MassResistance says Democratic candidate Martha Coakley's "enthusiastic support of [the] radical homosexual/transgender agenda" is reason enough to oppose her -- though the group worries Brown is moving to the left to try to win independents. "Let's hope the election comes quickly, before Brown morphs into a Republican Barney Frank," says an analysis of the race on the MassResistance Web site. But the group still says Brown is "the best man" for the Senate seat.

A Brown campaign aide didn't immediately return a phone call about the endorsements. And it doesn't appear the campaign solicited the help from either group.

But the support from fringe groups does underscore the point national Democrats and labor groups have been trying to make about Brown over the last week, as they leap to rescue Coakley's campaign: he's far too conservative for Massachusetts voters. The type of moderate Republicans who nearly beat John Kerry and Ted Kennedy in previous elections (Bill Weld, pre-presidential politics Mitt Romney) didn't take positions that won them much sympathy from groups like MassResistance or ALIPAC. "When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas," one Democratic operative said. Then again, remembering how conservative Brown is also shows how mystifying it is that the race is this close.

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its sad when someone believes the SPLC and did no actual investigation themselves

Martha Coakley & SEIU is a prime example of what is exactly bringing our country down, Union Thuggery, Blatant in your face corruption, Anti-Americanism, Socailistic/Marxist Agendas and so on. Anyone voting for this woman should seriously have their head examimed.

If some of you could bombard Salon.com with copies of this for any place you can find to post it there or email it in to their staff and editors.

Let em have it!

I won't, and I'll tell you why. I believe in what ALIPAC is doing completely and I support the organization 100%. I will not engage in name calling simply because I don't like what the opposition says about ALIPAC, it makes us no better than the pro-illegal side.

Show me the facts that prove Madden and Salon.com are in hot water, and not just on your say so, and I will post this everywhere I visit.